Opening Speech delivered by Garuda Inrastructure (Garin) was represented by Bpk. Bagja N. Kurniawan. He presented brief introduction of Garuda Infrastructure and was expecting all participants to have a collaboration with Garin in future infrastructure events. As representative of Universitas Pertamina, Bpk. Dr. Arianta (Head of Civil Departement) introduced Civil Engineering program at Universitas Pertamina. The study program is divided into different expertise which are Offshore Engineering, Coastal Engineering, Structural & Geotechnical Engineering, and Transportation Engineering. In addition, Bpk. Rangga Adiprima Sudisman Dr. Eng. (Civi Engineering Lecturer Universitas Pertamina) was a moderator in this seminar and workshop.

Bpk. Dr. Ir. Herry Trisaputra Zuna, SE, head of Indonesian Toll Road Authority (Kepala BPJT), is pleased to be a keynote speaker in the Seminar with a topic of Indonesian Toll Road Infrastructure Outlook. He explained that there are 35 segments of toll road are under construction and 11 segments are under preparation which cover Trans Sumatera, Trans Jawa, Non Trans Jawa, and Jabodetabek. “According to the plan, the total length of Indonesian toll road would be operated in 2017, 2018, and 2019 are 391.9 km, 614.7 km, and 668.8 km rspectively,” He added.

Due to the participant’s request, the event are continued after lunch and break session with Digital Triaxial demonstration. Bpk. Ghozalfan described how to use digital triaxial instrument and monitoring result provided on the screen.

The seminar and workshop has successfully done by accommodating 130 participants form different backgrounds, such as Entrepreneur, academic, professional, government / state owned government, and private sector. Together with Garuda Infrastructure and Universitas Pertamina Students, some students from Universitas Bakrie were involved as committe.

Garuda Infrastructure would like to thank to the exceptional speaker and Universitas Pertamina as opportunity given for Indonesian infrastructure network member from both professional and academic. It is our believe that such venture will benefit Indonesia’s infrastructure community and people of Indonesia in general.

We are looking forward of seeing you in our future infrastructure event.